The settlement resolved a sexual assault and defamation lawsuit against Weiss — who, in January 2010, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child endangerment for what he admitted was “inappropriate physical contact” with the boys on Whitehall Road. The crime took place at a mikveh, a bath used in Judaism for ritual immersion.

Weiss complained about the lawsuit to a rabbinical tribunal in Rockland County. That tribunal threatened to excommunicate the families because they had brought the case outside of a religious setting, according to court papers.

One of the families dropped its suit. The other accepted the $6,000 settlement just as their case was set for trial in Albany on Jan. 22. The settlement sealed sworn admissions that Weiss made in a deposition to the attorney of the families.

When the Times Union published some of those admissions, Louis-Jack Pozner, an attorney for Weiss, emailed Law Beat and demanded the admissions be removed from the newspaper’s website.

“I do not know when you obtained it or from whom but because it is sealed its contents should not be disclosed,” stated Pozner, who was not Weiss’ attorney for the civil suit. “Kindly remove any reference in your online story to the contents of the Weiss deposition in order not to violate the court’s order and the terms of the settlement agreement.”

We’ll give Pozner an “A” for effort. The Times Union, however, already had a copy of the deposition long before the settlement. Here at Law Beat, we have no intention of censoring information that is, while unsettling, newsworthy.

Hard to believe that any religous group would allow themselves to be manipulated by a pedophiile into threatening to excommunicate his victims and their families. This would never happen in a reformed temple.

I cannot for the life of me understand how the DA’s office was allowed to offer a plea deal and why do judges accept these plea deals? I know it is supposed to offer a cheaper form of justice, but at what cost to future victims?

In the column above a 64-year old pervert is gonna get 4 years for copping a feel from a 91 years old nursing home patient. Ol’ Rabbi Grabinwicz here, deserves at least twice that amount of time for no other reason than he abused two victims with his perversions.

Without too much detail what he did to that kid is disgusting. Especially in a “Mikvah” which is supposed to be for purification of sins (baptism evolved from that Jewish custom).

He should at least be a level one sex offender. I am disgusted at Colonie how they handled this. Especially admitting that “it wasn’t an accident.” If he ever tried that on me he would be missing something.

Orthodox Jews unfortunately do sweep abuse under the table, and would rather have the perpetrator ask forgiveness from G-d (T’shuva) and promise never to do it again rather than bring charges in the Secular court. I guess the Colonie “Beth-din” (Translated: House of Law or Court) agreed with that belief as well.

Point taken Elmer. Jango points out that the downstate relegious group covered for the pedophile (are you people seriously nuts?) and Robert and hawkny point out that the DA’s office was asleep at the switch in agreeing to the ridiculously low punishment for this creep (whose transgressions are far greater than what has been revealed btw).
This just proves that perversion (and its coverup by various official entities) is irrelegious and apolitical and is viewed within an overall political agenda.

Catholic, Jew, Muslim… all the same delusional garbage. The fact that these cults think they have the right to “handle” these horrific crimes “in house” without reporting them to law enforcement is just one more reason to eliminate religion from the face of the Earth. They care more about their image than children being raped by their staff. They are criminal organizations just as much, if not more, than any cartel or mafia gang. They con gulable people out of their hard earned money with promises that are blatent lies. Tax them out if existance.